If "I sat there feeling rather like a chappie I'd once read about in a book, who murdered another cove and hid the body under the dining-room table, and then had to be the life and soul of a dinner party, with it there all the time.", does it follow that "He had to be the life and soul of a dinner party, with the body there all the time."
Possible answers:
[1]. no;
[2]. yes;
[2].